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All right, let's do it. Father, we honor you.

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We honor you in everything we do. We get to do

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this. And that's the truth. We thank you, Lord,

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that you have ordered our steps and you delight

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in the very details of our lives. Every detail,

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down to the most minute thing. You're there and

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you care. Thank you for that. I pray today for

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our listeners, Adam and I together. We join our

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hearts together, our faith together. For those

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who are listening, Father, that they would be

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built up, encouraged, challenged, but also hungry

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for more. Lord, our heart is that all of us will

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be hungry for you. We give this to you in Jesus'

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name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday, November 5th,

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2025. We get to do this. This is episode number

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nine. Yo, yo, brother. Hello. Man, that jingle

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is really getting in my head. You know what's

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funny is that I posted our share link on X. That's

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the only social media I still have. And I really

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only post shows. And then I look at the inbox,

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because that's where people tag something. I

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don't really go through the timeline. And some

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guy, like, I had to forgive him right away. It

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was not easy. Come on, brother. Radical forgiveness.

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You know, that song, that sounds like really

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bad worship music before Hillsong was around.

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I'm like, really? Is that really? And by the

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way, of all the things you could say about our

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show, is that all you have to say? Wow. This

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is what I thought. I didn't. I think all my reply

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was, I think I just heard Jeff Smith's heartbreak,

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but otherwise, thank you very much for your response.

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I love it, man. Everybody's a critic. Anybody

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with a keyboard's a critic. Entitlement, autopilot.

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But we used to go to the, you know, we'd huddle

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around a church or the bar or at the sports club

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and the water on the water cooler, and we'd talk

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amongst ourselves. Which I woke this morning

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to nothing but hair on fire, pearl clutching,

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the Muslim socialists have taken over. It's the

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end of America. We're all going to die. I was

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praying for that one, brother. I was praying.

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It seems such an obvious... First of all, I know

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through some hands -on, boots -on -the -ground,

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that this is just like AOC, and they've done

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many more. I'm pretty sure it's just the DSA,

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the Democrat Socialists of America, which really

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doesn't have a party, you know, this is a group.

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And they recruit actors. I mean, Mom Donnie literally

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is a theater kid. Wow, didn't know that. Oh yeah,

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literally. I'm not surprised though. No, and

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he's really good. He's charismatic, he's friendly

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and fun. Everything you want in a leader who's

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going to give you free stuff. Exactly. First

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of all, I was very disappointed in myself because

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I fell down on the job so badly this week. We

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had voting yesterday and we had... Right. and

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we had 17 mainly tax -related bills. Amendments,

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yeah. Yeah, amendments. 17 amendments. And I

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was driving in the car and I was listening to

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Bridge Church Radio, which is all the podcast.

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It's in the Godcast rap. Give it a shot. And

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of course, Matt Long pops up. And with this Bridge

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Church Radio, it's just podcasts, all the new

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episodes play. Oh right, you're doing the continuous

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play. Yeah. And so he kind of dropped in the

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middle and he's talking about it. You know, Matt

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Long is a guy I would trust to give me the right

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things, you know, the insight, because a lot

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of these amendments are double negatives, tricky

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language. You think you're voting against something,

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but you're really voting for it to be something.

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So I really... Not intentional at all. No, I

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really appreciate it. And then I realized that

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I did not know what district I'm in. I really

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don't. And I'm like, okay, so I do a... An AI

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actually, I asked Grok in expert mode and it

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took about five minutes as well. Looks like you're

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in district three. So where can I vote for district

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three? That's right over here by the airport.

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And it turns out the district three and district

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10, how much sense does that make? That they

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are both very near each other. So you go into

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the same building. I go into the district three.

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Oh no, your driver's license says you're district

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10. Okay, so thanks AI. I'm glad. And then how

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does it even work that we have District 3 and

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10 in the same building? I don't understand any

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of this. I can hear Matt Long groaning because

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he can explain it. And now, so I was prepared

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and I knew the things I wanted to vote yes on

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and wanted to vote no on. Turnout, of course,

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actually was a little higher than they expected.

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I saw. But it's still, it's a very small amount.

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And I put some blame on myself because where

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were the promos on Hello Fred telling people

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to go vote? I know. Telling people to listen

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to Matt Long show. I agree. I dropped the ball.

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We dropped the ball. Yeah, I feel bad about that.

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Like, wow, I cannot believe that we missed that.

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This is the whole point. That hit me this morning

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when I got up and I didn't even look, but Annette

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did. So she's my news source now. I said, She

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said, I can't believe this. She said, all 17

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passed. I said, you know why? Because nobody

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read them. People went out and voted straight

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up. So much easier is to click yes on every one

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of them to actually dive in. We used, I like

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Texas Scorecard. I like those guys. Yeah, there's

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a couple of good services like that. They're

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solid. And so I went on Texas Scorecard and that's

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where I pulled. I think the Tea Party used that

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one as well. Likely. And so I voted according

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to that. I actually copied it off, Annette and

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I did. And took it with you. We took it with

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us. Somebody asked me, can you do that? I said,

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You're the voter. Hello. Yes, you can. Yes, you

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can. Yeah, absolutely. We're voting for things

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that are very complicated and convoluted. But

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I only saw people our age and older, brother.

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I didn't see any young people. And I sat in the

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parking lot for a little bit just to see what

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was coming in. And, you know, older people, older

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than us for sure. Although maybe we just look

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good for our age. I don't know. There it is.

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Thank you. But I was just like, what are we doing?

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screwed it up. I feel really, really dumb about

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this because it was staring me in the face. Okay.

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Let's not beat ourselves up about it. All right.

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All right. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm

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done. Course correction. We will do a better

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job as things are coming up of relaying to our

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listeners, get out and vote. But here, here's

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a resource. Yeah. Go check this out. Listen to

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this guy. I felt like that. I felt like on Sunday

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I dropped the ball because we had a guest speaker.

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Yeah. So my mind was in a different place. Yes.

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And it was like, you didn't even mention the

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election. I'm like, oh. So you had the same idea.

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I really did. I felt terrible about it. Well,

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this brings me to our guest speaker because Dr.

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Rick Scarborough and his lovely wife, Tommy,

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they came and they and he spoke at two services.

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I actually pulled two clips, one relevant to

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our conversation right now. But the first clip

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I want to play is just and we already discussed

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going outside of our rules. We discussed this

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briefly. just because we both were in so awe

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of it. We both have been speaking publicly 40

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years each, give or take. You've been speaking

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publicly in front of actual people, which I find

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incredibly daunting, and I'm humbled by how good

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you are at that. I speak cowardly behind a microphone

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in a darkened room. Not cowardly, brother. we

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understand public speaking and we understand

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live public speaking and Dr. Rick Scarborough

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gave us a Masterclass in what to do when something

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that happens all the time. It happens to you.

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It happens to me You lose your train of thought

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you try to pretend you're doing Trump's weave

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No, you just don't know where you're at and what

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he did was not not only did it blow me away I

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sat in awe in the front row going like Oh, wow.

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Thank you for this lesson because I'm going to

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do this too. I don't care where it happens to

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me. Listen to this. In fact, one of his pupils

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and a man who greatly enjoyed his work was a

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pastor who was also the only pastor who signed

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the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon.

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Lex Rex, among other things, stated that... Well,

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I've got off track here, forgive me. Father,

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I pray that you will calm my spirit, enable me

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to preach with fluence, and also Lord, stay on

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track as we seek to provide biblical evidence,

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very real historical evidence that this country

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was founded on the Bible and by people who are

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people of the Bible. And I thank you Lord for

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Samuel Rutherford and his disciple who also became

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the first president of what was then called New

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Jersey College, but later become known as Princeton.

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Help me, Lord, to share these truths and move

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on to the more important things that follow.

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But beloved, here's the point. Boom. Our country

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was founded by men who loved God with all their

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heart. That was, I mean, yes. I tear up listening

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to that. Yeah, amazing. partly, initially, the

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pain of it because we've all been there. We call

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it brain freeze or brain fart, if we're being

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honest. And everything's going through your mind

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like, oh crap, you see people in the audience

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looking at you. The tension builds in that silence.

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That's the silence that screams, right? Dead

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air on a radio, dead air in a church, you know,

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in the middle of a message. Some of it's good.

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I love silence. For effect, it can be powerful.

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But when it's unintentional, it's heartbreaking.

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And yet, He pivoted and just went right to the

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source. Because he knew why he was there. And

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he's like, God, Lord, help me. And he's literally,

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I'm here, you know, to help these people understand

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what our country was built on. And all of a sudden,

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you can just hear like the Holy Spirit went,

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and he had it. Kicks into another gear. Literally,

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I have goosebumps right now. Thank you for playing

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that. I shared that with our staff. I said, one

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of the most poignant moments for me was when

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Dr. Rick had a freeze moment. They at first were

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like, that was powerful for you. I said, but

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what he did, and they got it. You could see it

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landing on all the team. They were like, oh,

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he prayed. He prayed. A couple of them were out.

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They were doing other things in the building.

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They were like, that was amazing. They'd already

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forgot about it because it was Tuesday and we're

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moving on. But I brought them all back to that

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moment because he gave, use the words, a master

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class in what to do when you stumble over your

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own thoughts. It happens to us all. It didn't

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matter. And it reminded me of more like when

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I can't find my glasses, when I can't find my

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car keys, just take a moment. and pray. And man,

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it works. I have to say time and time again,

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like, thank you. Hey, I got here with the car,

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so I must have found the keys. It happened again.

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And just praying in the moment is something that

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I think is easy to forget to do. Like Tina almost

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got hit by a truck this morning on her walk.

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And by the way, every single morning when she

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goes out, I say, be careful. And I say a quick

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prayer for her. to be, because it's not her,

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it's the other people who are sleepy. And, you

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know, the guy just didn't see her. She came around

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the corner. She was on the crosswalk. And right,

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she texted me like, oh, let's get hit by a truck.

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And right away I'm like, thank you, Lord. Thank

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you. Thank you for having your angels there protecting

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her. Just, and I'm just getting in the habit

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of doing this. I got an active prayer life. A

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lot of people emailing me too, like, can you

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pray for this? Can you pray for me? Here's what's

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going on. I mean, I don't have to tell you. You've

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been doing this for over 40 years. So getting

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back to Dr. Rick and the reason, and this was

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kind of his entire message. And we've talked

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about it and it was so good. And there's some

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things he brought up, which I think we just expand

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a little bit on so people in our church know

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what's going on. And it was so, Salient what

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he's saying here, particularly in light of the

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hair on fire. Oh, no a socialist got in, you

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know Muslim and by the way, this is the new talking

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point be on the lookout for it Muslims are taking

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over America. Well a They're not be what are

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you doing about it? You know, what are you doing

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about it? And and that's the point. That's really

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what dr. Rick He's up in his 75? 75. He's been

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doing this for a long time. And he gave, in a

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minute 30, just gave a quick overview of what

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he's talking about, what is happening here in

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our own bridge church and around the country.

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And he made kind of an altar call for it, which

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was just all beautiful, all in one go. Here it

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is. When John Thune was elected, our ministry

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mobilized a thousand pastors in South Dakota.

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We were seeing results everywhere we went. We

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never lost a race, and I never endorsed a candidate.

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All I did was call the pastors, look at these

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men's records, and you tell your people which

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one to vote for. We are now freer than we've

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ever been. We can now endorse candidates. We

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always could. I always did. But the government

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doesn't have the right to frighten us any longer,

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because finally, the law's been passed rectifying

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the Johnson Amendment, which should have never

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been enacted. And that's another story. Beloved,

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listen carefully. God has raised your pastor

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up to be one of the leaders of this effort to

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mobilize 25 ,000 churches by 2028. That's the

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guy with the hook. He's going to jerk me off.

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So Cass, our keyboard player, comes up, he always

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comes up around 10, 15, and just that ad lib

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was just so beautiful. I'll play it again and

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we'll continue. That's the guy with the hook.

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That's the best. Do you realize today we have

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a chance to change America if Jesus carries?

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And if you don't, that's going to be better.

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I mean, folks, listen, we can't lose this thing.

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Let's be about the business of changing our culture.

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God's calling somebody to run for city council,

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somebody to run for school board. Quit cursing

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the doctors. Change it. Turn the light on. Look

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at the light. Folks, I didn't have time to go

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into Isaiah chapter 3. In Isaiah chapter 3, you

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see what happens when a country turns its back

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on God. You know what happens in Isaiah chapter

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5? God asked a couple of questions. He said,

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I was expecting you to blossom and be a fertile

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land, but instead I see thorns and thistles.

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And that's exactly what I'm seeing now. Thorns

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and thistles. That's all we see, right? Yeah.

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We're in revival. What happened to people cheering

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what God is doing because they've gotten distracted

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and pulled back down the rabbit hole? And I think

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people enjoy being there. There's something about

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being spun up that's a total dopamine release.

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There it is. It's the dopamine release. Addiction

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to this being all righteously indignant. I've

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got a right to be angry about this. People live

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in that space and yet God has called us to peace.

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He's called us to sow peace. He even says, bring

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your peace and give your peace wherever you go.

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And so what should surround our lives is not

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chaos, not living spun up, not living afraid,

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you know, chicken little, the sky's falling,

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the sky's falling. But there should be something,

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it's called the peace of God, that passes all

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understanding. That supersedes everything. Reasoning,

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even what you see with your eyes. If I spend

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five minutes on social media looking at a news

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feed, it immediately, I can feel the triggers.

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And so I've just quit doing it. Annette's having

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to keep me informed on what's going on. I wake

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up in the morning, I go, has there been another

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9 -1 -1? No, okay, I'm going to go about my business.

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Now I want to be informed, but rightly informed.

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Let's take it one step further. And he may have

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said this later on or in the second service,

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which I did not hear. But the point is, in Fredericksburg,

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in Bridge Church, we can dominate city council,

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mayor, school board, probably parts of the Gillespie

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County administrative unit. And this is, again,

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this comes back to how we fell down on the job.

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But when he made this kind of altar call, I think

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10, 15 people showed up and said, yeah, I feel

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called to run for something. Both services. Yes.

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Over 20 people. Beautiful. And so these people

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need to be supported, need to be helped. We need

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to organize. I'm going to be having a conversation

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with Matt Long about this very thing. He wants

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to coach people in this. Yes. So I'm going to

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talk to him. We're going to get a little brainstorm

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going about what's the best way to do that. We

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want to hold a seminar, call it a work, you know,

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just a working class. What do we want to do to

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create a space for that? so that he can share

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the things he knows and what he's learned about

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being involved in politics for years. And then

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we've got others, we have another who stepped

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forward, now I'll keep his name out of the hat

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yet, who's already been in office, now has called

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to run for a higher office. And he's already

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got that experience as well. So we can get this

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think tank going of people that have this...

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I don't know what I'm supposed to run for, but

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I think I'm supposed to do something. Well, let's

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come meet. Let's come talk about it. Let's have

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a conversation about that and let's see what

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percolates. Is this, can we do something with

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this like a separate podcast or a broadcast of

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this? Or, I mean, I'd love to have whoever's

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going to run for anything we need to get behind

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them. We need to start putting their message

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out. I mean, I'll produce whatever we need to

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do. Bring them on as a guest. We can have a spot

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in our show where we bring them in. Perfect.

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We don't have to dominate the whole podcast,

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but we can have them in. Do we have budget for

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a third microphone? Do we have that? He's got

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a third mic. Now we just need three headphones.

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And a fourth. Well, let's do that. We have the

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round table right here with people. Let's do

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that. And actually let them share in real time

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what they're experiencing. Were you afraid to

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say yes to God? Let's just talk about that, because

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that's a big fear that people have. The biggest

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fear we have is we won't know what to do when

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we get there. That's the biggest fear. And I'm

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going to look foolish. I'm going to look like

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an idiot. But everyone who's ever stepped into

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office, other than the oligarchs who were raised

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in it, but the people, the real people that are

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moving the needle in the culture, went in, we've

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talked about this, because of probably pain,

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probably something happened, a trauma, something,

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an event. And they too were just as scared to

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step forward. But something compelled them to

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make a difference and make a change. This is

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where I want to go next. This is about your calling.

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And I'm trying to navigate this myself. Here

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I am, 61, still navigating this. And why am I

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navigating it? Because some wonderful person

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from my past, long time ago, she actually used

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to work at production desk when I was 19 in Holland

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at the television and radio station. She sent

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me some Dutch licorice because I saw her at this

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big reunion and you know she's 10 years old and

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I am she's wheeling around oxygen tank and it's

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like oh how you doing pretending like everything's

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the same like holy moly girl I got to pray over

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you and so she sent me all kinds of stuff and

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some book and he sent me this magazine which

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is still priced in Gilders if you can believe

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it so you know the euro has been around for a

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long time brother so this is an old magazine.

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and it has a picture of me on the cover as a

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very young, innocent -looking 19 -year -old and

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inside of me at the radio station. Is that the

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picture? That's the black and white picture.

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Yeah, that's cool. I saw that yesterday. It looks

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like I'm inside of NASA 1960s. Everything's gray

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with meters and everything's very sterile, kind

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of odd looking. And I said to Tina, I said, take

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this picture of me behind my rig right now. And

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you look at these two pictures, And of course,

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the chin is a little more saggy and the equipment

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is much more modern. But I look at that and I'm

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like, this is what I am. This is who I have always

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been. This has somehow, this communication, doing

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this radio podcasting, that has been my calling

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and I've come back to it. I've never really stopped

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doing it. I've had some different... went into

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corporate life, and then came right after corporate

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life, God was like, no, I think you got to get

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back into this here, invent podcasting, boom.

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And here we are, and now 61 is still doing this.

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And so I think it was on our walking with Jesus

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discipleship, I'm trying to think now, it was

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about getting right with God, and I just jot

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stuff down, so I'm not quite sure where I got

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all of this from. And then I came across 1 John

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5, 14 to 15. This is the ESV. And this is the

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confidence that we have toward Him, that if we

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ask anything according to His will, He hears

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us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever

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we ask, we know that we have the request that

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we have asked of Him. And what I take away from

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this is getting... So people are always like,

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if I pray to... The Bible says if I pray to God,

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then whatever I ask for will come to me. And

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this is me stating what I think I've learned

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and kind of at the same time saying, Pastor,

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what do you think about this? The way I'm reading

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it now is that if I have found what God wants

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me to be, then naturally the things that I will

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want will be the things that He wants and then

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they will happen. Is that an interpretation that

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makes sense? That's spot on. It's an identity

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thing. You're understanding who you are. I've

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said this for years. I think I actually, this

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may be the one original thing I've ever said

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that I didn't steal from somebody else and then

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claim it after I said it five times. But I've

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always said, and I literally continue to say

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it, when you know who you are, you'll know what

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to do. So when you know who you are in Christ,

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things come. It's like you're not forcing it.

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You're not having to guess. You're not out there

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test driving 15 different things and go, Oh,

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this one feels the best. Right. You just know

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there's, there's a knowing that happens when

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you know him, when you know who you are in him,

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you will know what to do. Yes. And it's interesting.

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Henry black could be back in 1979, 1980 came

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out. No, I'm sorry. 89 or 90. came out with a

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book and then a workbook called Experiencing

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God. The premise of that book, and this is a

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line that he repeats over and over, is look to

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see where God is working. When you recognize

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his activity, that is his invitation for you

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to join him in his work. How simple is that?

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You recognize, whoa, this is God. I see grace

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on this. I see God moving, working. That's now

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his invitation to you to join him in that work.

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So apply that same verse, apply that premise

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to what you're doing. It's like the runner. I

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can't remember from Chariots of Fire. The runner.

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Yeah. Do we need to break into a prayer here?

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He's had a moment like, Lord, help us remember.

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It'll come to me in a minute. But I remember

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him saying, I feel God. when I run. I feel the

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pleasure of God when I run. It's the same way.

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When you sit down in a chair with a mic and a

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headset on, you're there. Strangely enough, me

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too, I love this because I love speaking. And

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not because I think I've got the greatest things

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to say, it's because I trust that God can say

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things through us to anyone who's yielded to

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Him. Bringing this back to when those people

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stood up in the first and second service, if

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you really felt it, hear this conversation, then

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that may be the thing that God has called you

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to do. 1 Corinthians 7, 17. I did homework. Come

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on. Only let each person lead the life the Lord

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has assigned to him and to which God has called

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him." Yes, I love that. And I see that and I'm

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like, boom, my head explodes. Funny because Annette

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gave me that verse on Monday morning. I used

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it for the DG. on Monday. And that's probably

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why I wrote it down, brother. I just jumped off

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it. I don't know where I collect this stuff.

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It's exactly that verse because… Read it again.

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Read it again. That is so good. It is from the

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Daily Grind. You're right. I wrote it down. Read

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it again. That is so good. 1 Corinthians 7, 17.

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Only let each person lead the life that the Lord

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has assigned to him and to which God has called

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him. Oh, assignment and calling. Yes. Wow. It

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doesn't get any clearer than that. Do you happen

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to have the whole daily grind on your computer?

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I do. That would be from Monday. Yes. In fact,

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I have it even in my system. Here's the title

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I wrote, My Purpose. This is my outline system.

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I put down that daily grind, just the verse,

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and then the other things that I talked about

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earlier. What was the whole daily grind? All

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right. So, it's this. It's called, Know Your

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Assignment. And it's very short. This one is

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a short one. God has called, anointed, and empowered

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you to live the life He has designed for you.

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The details unfold as you walk with Him in step,

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moment by moment. It's not complicated. Know

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Him, and you will know your purpose. When you

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know who you are in Him, you will know what to

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do. Look for what God is doing throughout this

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day. and join him in his work. This is Pastor

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Jimmy Pruitt. Have an amazing day on purpose.

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So yeah, there's the DG for the day, right? So

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autopilot now. But there's so many little points

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in there that I've taken what I've walked with

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for 40 plus years and threw them into about five

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sentences there. And it's this, know him and

00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:24.420
you will know your purpose. Yes. Everybody's

00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:26.539
asking that, what is God's will for my life?

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:29.420
And I was just about to say, this is the hardest,

00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:31.779
I'm sure that lots of people listening are like,

00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.519
well, that's easy for you guys to say, you've

00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:37.920
been doing this for 40 years. How does anyone

00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:42.119
find their purpose, what God wants them to do?

00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:46.720
How do you find it? So very simply, you start

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:49.680
with what the Bible tells us to do. that's his

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.259
purpose for our life. He gave it to us in black

00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:54.599
and white and red, if you get the red letter

00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:59.119
edition. So we've got that already, and he's

00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:01.960
very clear in Scripture. He even says, this is

00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.240
the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. I mean,

00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.599
over and over, he gives us all these—they're

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.960
not even Easter eggs. They're there in plain

00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.900
English. You start there with the written Word

00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:17.299
of God, the revealed Word of God. But then, and

00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:19.539
that's called the halagos, that's the written

00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:22.019
word, right? But then there's the rhema word

00:29:22.019 --> 00:29:25.539
of God, that's the God -breathed word. That's

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:28.539
the word that's not written down on paper. It's

00:29:28.539 --> 00:29:31.519
the one he speaks to your heart. But you will

00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:35.180
only know that by knowing him. So this is a,

00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:37.900
that goes back to James 4a, draw near to God.

00:29:38.089 --> 00:29:40.630
and He will draw near to you. What a promise.

00:29:40.829 --> 00:29:43.470
I love those simple short one -liners because

00:29:43.470 --> 00:29:47.089
I can remember them, for one. But also, it's

00:29:47.089 --> 00:29:51.289
so clear. If I will make the effort to initiate

00:29:51.289 --> 00:29:55.509
movement toward God, He will bring movement back

00:29:55.509 --> 00:29:58.809
to me. He will reciprocate. It's a promise. So

00:29:58.809 --> 00:30:01.190
I trust that as I'm drawing near to Him, whatever

00:30:01.190 --> 00:30:03.269
that means, it may just mean reading my Bible

00:30:03.269 --> 00:30:06.579
every morning. You know, it may be in the screen,

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:09.559
you know, Scripture before screens. It may mean

00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:11.619
during the day I put down my screens and pick

00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:15.660
up my Bible, but I'm spending time in God's Word,

00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.519
therefore I'm getting to know Him. I'm learning

00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.960
about His character, His movement, His way, His

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:25.279
will, the way He moves. So that's the first piece.

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:27.440
Yeah, but Pastor Jimmy, I read my You version

00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:30.359
every single morning. I don't feel it yet. First

00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.839
of all, it's good that someone does that. I want

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:36.940
people to do that and you need to check your

00:30:36.940 --> 00:30:39.099
box to feel better. That's fine. That's great.

00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:41.980
But there's a difference between reading the

00:30:41.980 --> 00:30:44.900
Word and being still with God's Word and letting

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:49.500
it read you. And so you have to spend time with

00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:51.859
it. And that time doesn't mean you're reading

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:55.599
copious amounts of it. Frankly, if I read a whole,

00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:57.940
when I do the read through the Bible thing, that

00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:01.930
is a struggle for me. because I want to go in

00:31:01.930 --> 00:31:04.509
the weeds on everything. It's like binging House

00:31:04.509 --> 00:31:07.029
of David. You're like, are we still in Samuel?

00:31:07.150 --> 00:31:09.890
This is too much for me. Which by the way, I'm

00:31:09.890 --> 00:31:14.009
loving that show. It's good. Oh my gosh. I'll

00:31:14.009 --> 00:31:15.809
easily go down the rabbit hole on that. How much

00:31:15.809 --> 00:31:19.730
I love that. But back to knowing his will, knowing

00:31:19.730 --> 00:31:22.049
his way, but you got to know him to know your

00:31:22.049 --> 00:31:25.740
purpose. And that means Spending time with him

00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:28.039
daily and it doesn't mean reading copious amounts

00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:31.380
of scripture. It may mean reading one verse and

00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:33.920
Taking that verse throwing it you speak into

00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:35.900
screens throw it on your notepad on your notes

00:31:35.900 --> 00:31:38.660
on your phone So that any time through the day

00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:41.539
you just pull it up Sitting at a red light pull

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:43.559
it up. Oh, there it is You know, we it used to

00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:45.839
be we'd write it down on a note card, right and

00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.220
have it have it in strategic places Well now

00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:51.380
we've got something to use it for good, to use

00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:53.640
it for something that's life -giving, use your

00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:56.359
notepad on your phone and put that scripture

00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.900
on there. This is a really good point. And you

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:03.640
can see what happened. And I have a lot of checkboxes

00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:05.039
like, I want to read this one, I want to read

00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.460
that one. Yeah, that's great. But these jumped

00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:12.059
out at me. I jotted them down. And as I was preparing

00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:15.329
for today's show, I'm just, it just... all kind

00:32:15.329 --> 00:32:19.150
of came together like, oh, yes, this makes so

00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:23.869
much sense. And what I find increasingly is that

00:32:23.869 --> 00:32:28.210
if you open up your Bible or your Bible app and

00:32:28.210 --> 00:32:31.650
it opens to something and you're like, huh, that's

00:32:31.650 --> 00:32:35.029
not by accident. Sit on it. Just stay there.

00:32:35.130 --> 00:32:37.630
I mean, I was looking for something in Romans

00:32:37.630 --> 00:32:44.089
12 .2 and by accident, quotation marks went to

00:32:44.089 --> 00:32:48.609
Romans 2 and that and I'm like, whoa This has

00:32:48.609 --> 00:32:52.190
in fact, where's my I? Actually, I highlighted

00:32:52.190 --> 00:32:55.509
it because I can't remember what it was. I got

00:32:55.509 --> 00:32:57.710
to come back to this. These these are the things

00:32:57.710 --> 00:33:01.829
that's great Well, so I was going for Romans

00:33:01.829 --> 00:33:05.859
12 to don't conform to the to the ways of the

00:33:05.859 --> 00:33:09.400
world which is man if anything do we in fact

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.660
this is the nlt version i don't like it as much

00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:14.160
don't copy the behavior and the custom of this

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.460
world i like the last part of this yeah better

00:33:16.460 --> 00:33:19.519
yes but let god transform you into a new person

00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.039
by changing the way you think brilliant then

00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.359
you will learn to know god's will for you which

00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.660
is good and pleasing and perfect now let me go

00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:33.339
to what i was actually looking for was roman's

00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:37.170
212 and this is My point being that nothing is

00:33:37.170 --> 00:33:40.970
by accident. Nothing is by accident. And I think

00:33:40.970 --> 00:33:45.910
here it was, well, I guess I didn't mark it up.

00:33:46.170 --> 00:33:48.509
I was going to say 12 is pretty intense. Yeah.

00:33:48.910 --> 00:33:51.509
There was something about 212 that popped out

00:33:51.509 --> 00:33:56.369
at me. Anyway, I marked up, maybe it was the

00:33:56.369 --> 00:33:58.390
other way around. I came up with 12 instead of

00:33:58.390 --> 00:34:01.529
two, and that just fit in so perfectly for me.

00:34:01.569 --> 00:34:04.930
And exactly today, this very day. Don't copy

00:34:04.930 --> 00:34:08.110
what everyone else is doing. Don't copy the outrage

00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:12.230
about Mamdani and Islam is going to take over.

00:34:12.809 --> 00:34:16.010
But let God transform you into a new person by

00:34:16.010 --> 00:34:20.070
changing the way you think. Hello. Hello. Then

00:34:20.070 --> 00:34:24.309
you will learn to know God's will for you, which

00:34:24.309 --> 00:34:28.429
is good and pleasing and perfect. And so, if

00:34:28.429 --> 00:34:34.739
anyone stood up and and felt a calling, you know,

00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.719
please reach out, let's get, let's make sure

00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.519
this happens. We can conform our little town

00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:46.480
here to a Christian way of thinking and life.

00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:49.340
We're not even that far from it actually. We

00:34:49.340 --> 00:34:52.360
have a lot of groups like, rawr, rawr, rawr's

00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.480
no good, rawr's get angry. And these are groups

00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.599
that can't even endorse a candidate by their

00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.820
own charter. Like you're basically just a protest

00:34:59.820 --> 00:35:05.900
group. No. we can endorse people, we can give

00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:08.380
people a platform, give people a microphone,

00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.280
even if it amplifies it to 10 people. Let's do

00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:18.019
this because we get to do this and we can make

00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:20.960
Fredericksburg great again. Come on, brother.

00:35:21.500 --> 00:35:27.659
Come on. I'm just trying to do the acronym. It

00:35:27.659 --> 00:35:29.559
doesn't work, but it sounds good. You just have

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.980
to say it out loud. You're so on point here.

00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:36.000
It's actually interesting because I just read

00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.260
something from a New Zealand pastor. He's with

00:35:39.260 --> 00:35:41.400
Life Church New Zealand. He pastored his own

00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:43.900
church for 20 years. Now he's doing some things

00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:45.900
where he's just writing out some things he learned

00:35:45.900 --> 00:35:48.360
in those 20 years of being a lead pastor. Now

00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:51.099
he's an associate pastor, so he's got this margin

00:35:51.099 --> 00:35:54.280
to actually help others. He said this, he said,

00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.780
One of our missing pieces in discipleship, and

00:35:57.780 --> 00:36:00.000
you'll recognize this because me and Pastor Brian

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:03.699
have been saying this for years, is that we do

00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:05.860
not see the world through a biblical worldview.

00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.179
But he took it one step further that I haven't.

00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:12.219
And he defined that, a part of that, as learning

00:36:12.219 --> 00:36:15.099
to think like Jesus. That if we're going to actually

00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:18.119
make disciples, we're not going for behavior

00:36:18.119 --> 00:36:21.539
modification. That doesn't last. That's motivation

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:23.760
and doesn't last. We're looking for inspiration.

00:36:24.059 --> 00:36:27.480
which is of the spirit and last, lasting heart

00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.260
change. And he said, the only way we can do that,

00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.199
A, biblical worldview, subcategory, we have to

00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.019
teach people to think like Jesus, which reminded

00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:39.380
me of the walking with Jesus discipleship journey.

00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:41.860
It's the whole point. And for those of you listening

00:36:41.860 --> 00:36:46.269
today on Wednesday, Tony Evans, You can get them

00:36:46.269 --> 00:36:48.449
in the Godcast app just under program search

00:36:48.449 --> 00:36:51.489
for Tony Evans. It's a classic from him. He was

00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:56.889
talking about this very thing. There's no coincidence

00:36:56.889 --> 00:37:00.150
in the kingdom. He was talking about this very

00:37:00.150 --> 00:37:02.909
thing, thinking like Jesus. What does following

00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:06.769
mean? And this goes back to, are we ever going

00:37:06.769 --> 00:37:11.650
to put these WWDJs out as a package or something?

00:37:11.789 --> 00:37:13.710
Because I understand that you really need to

00:37:13.710 --> 00:37:16.840
be there with the workbook. to get it, but man,

00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:20.000
just to listen to it again, it's so powerful.

00:37:20.260 --> 00:37:22.219
I mean, I don't know why we couldn't. There's

00:37:22.219 --> 00:37:25.179
no law on this. It's our decision whether we

00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:28.199
want to package these and put them into the Godcaster

00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.699
as a category. We can do that. We can do it as

00:37:30.699 --> 00:37:32.760
a channel. We're actually going to write a new

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:35.900
lesson in block three about biblical worldview

00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:40.079
and culture and how to confront culture and engage.

00:37:40.349 --> 00:37:43.369
the term biblical worldview is something that

00:37:43.369 --> 00:37:45.829
is not like a stop word, like, oh, we've got

00:37:45.829 --> 00:37:48.030
a biblical worldview on this show. Right. And

00:37:48.030 --> 00:37:50.789
I wonder if people actually even thinking about

00:37:50.789 --> 00:37:53.570
what that means anymore. So distill it down to

00:37:53.570 --> 00:37:56.369
thinking like Jesus. I mean, that's really where

00:37:56.369 --> 00:37:58.489
it is. Now, how do you get to, how do you, so

00:37:58.489 --> 00:38:01.190
for example, you and Tina have been together

00:38:01.190 --> 00:38:03.349
long enough and have been together long enough

00:38:03.349 --> 00:38:05.849
that we can sometimes complete each other's sentences.

00:38:05.869 --> 00:38:11.500
Sure. And they often do. There's your Easter

00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:14.960
egg, girls. The Easter eggs are getting picked

00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:18.260
up. I got called out. I got called out. I heard

00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:22.539
that. So, but that's a gift too. I mean, because

00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:25.340
they actually know what we become one. The scripture

00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:27.860
even says we become one. Why? Because we spend

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:31.340
time together. We do life together. We are together.

00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.460
And I spend time with my wife, not because I

00:38:35.460 --> 00:38:37.840
want to get to know her. I spend time with her

00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:41.239
because I know her. Think about this for a second.

00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:44.239
Yes, the reason I want to spend time with God

00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.300
is not to get to know him It's because I know

00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:50.280
you know him, you know when you love someone

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.980
you want to get time with them Period you just

00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:56.019
want to be in their orbit. You want to be in

00:38:56.019 --> 00:38:58.639
there there it is and you want to be around them

00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.360
and so What I found as a young Christian who

00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.199
knew zero when I came to God Zero, I didn't know

00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.559
I didn't even know the code language Christian

00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:12.130
ease. Mm -hmm Even in a church service, I was

00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:14.289
constantly confused because they had all these

00:39:14.289 --> 00:39:17.030
code words, especially in the Baptist church.

00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:19.250
They have their own language, their own culture.

00:39:19.730 --> 00:39:21.769
And I'm like, do I sit down here? Do I stand

00:39:21.769 --> 00:39:24.250
up? Just, okay, just watch everybody else do

00:39:24.250 --> 00:39:27.449
what they do. I never knew what I was doing for

00:39:27.449 --> 00:39:30.170
the first year. I had to learn all that. But

00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:34.469
because when I gave my life to Jesus, something

00:39:34.469 --> 00:39:38.070
transformed in my heart and I wanted to know

00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:43.510
Him better. But also, as I got to know him, I

00:39:43.510 --> 00:39:46.429
wanted to be with him more. So it's a twofold.

00:39:47.030 --> 00:39:49.409
I want to get to know him initially because I

00:39:49.409 --> 00:39:52.550
don't, therefore I want to spend time with him.

00:39:52.949 --> 00:39:55.630
But then as I get to know him, the reason changes

00:39:55.630 --> 00:39:58.150
of why I want to spend time with him, because

00:39:58.150 --> 00:40:01.010
I do know him. Does that make sense? It does

00:40:01.010 --> 00:40:05.730
to me. Therefore, I can't put the word of God

00:40:05.730 --> 00:40:09.659
down. It does to me, I'm sure many people are

00:40:09.659 --> 00:40:14.719
feeling like, because Tina and I have only been

00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:18.320
saved for three years. So in the beginning, I

00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.059
didn't quite have that. And it's been dawning

00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:23.679
on me for the past year and a half, two years.

00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.320
It's slowly coming into view. I pray for everyone

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.199
to have that feeling. I'm sure there are people

00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:34.280
listening to us right now who are saying, I'm

00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:36.500
not sure I have that feeling. Which is understandable.

00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:40.320
There comes a point where you have to step over

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:44.039
a line of surrender. You have to surrender your

00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:46.639
life to His. This is the big sticking piece.

00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.440
We talked about this about Joe Rogan. That's

00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.880
where his sticking point is right now. He's not

00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:57.739
ready to surrender. Self -made man. We're all

00:40:57.739 --> 00:41:00.679
that way at some level. You know, we're afraid

00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:06.539
if we surrender, will we be okay? I saw Eddie

00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:11.539
Murphy in the 90s on the Arsenio Hall show. Oh,

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.260
wow. You just took me way back. Yeah. Woof, woof,

00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:16.340
woof. He's in the house. I mean, all of this

00:41:16.340 --> 00:41:18.719
comes from the Arsenio Hall show. Right. Who

00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:20.719
I always found to be a very delightful guy. He

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:25.360
was good. I always liked him. And I don't recall

00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:29.050
ever meeting Eddie Murphy. Um, but Eddie Murphy,

00:41:29.050 --> 00:41:31.690
and he's doing, he's doing his whole thing. He's,

00:41:31.690 --> 00:41:33.809
he's great. He's cutting up. He's hilarious.

00:41:33.809 --> 00:41:37.630
And then, and this must've been, what was the

00:41:37.630 --> 00:41:41.329
90s? So, um, I forget who was running. Maybe

00:41:41.329 --> 00:41:43.510
Clinton was president. Bill Clinton was president

00:41:43.510 --> 00:41:48.289
at the time. And, and Arsenio says, so, uh, so

00:41:48.289 --> 00:41:50.030
you'll be voting this week. And Eddie Murphy

00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:54.250
goes, no. And, and I see what, and Arsenio's

00:41:54.250 --> 00:41:59.300
flabbergasted. And Eddie Murphy, I'm not that

00:41:59.300 --> 00:42:01.179
I'm saying what he said was right, but it always

00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:03.539
stuck with me. His conviction, he said, oh, no,

00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:05.340
no, God's got this figured out. It doesn't matter

00:42:05.340 --> 00:42:07.420
whether I vote or not. Now, I'm not saying that's

00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:10.199
true, but his conviction that God has a plan.

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:13.940
I'm in my lane, brother. This is what I'm supposed

00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:17.099
to do. I'm supposed to entertain people. Sometimes

00:42:17.099 --> 00:42:19.420
I slip a little something in, like trading places.

00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:22.760
There's always a little message in his movies

00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.780
that may not be apparent. And it always stuck

00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:29.460
with me. there's a guy who's convicted so far

00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:32.699
that he doesn't even, he knows, he knows that

00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:34.980
for whatever reason, his vote doesn't matter.

00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:37.239
And God's already got this all figured out and

00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.079
whoever's supposed to come is supposed to come.

00:42:39.579 --> 00:42:43.420
Not saying that's the right thing, but the conviction

00:42:43.420 --> 00:42:47.280
always stuck with me. Like, wow, if you can really

00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:50.320
believe that. And so when things happen in my

00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:54.530
life, I and now starting to default to, well,

00:42:54.530 --> 00:42:58.469
that's God's will. So is it something He wants

00:42:58.469 --> 00:43:01.989
me to do? Or am I viewing something incorrectly?

00:43:02.809 --> 00:43:06.289
And I feel like more and more it'll take me for

00:43:06.289 --> 00:43:09.949
the rest of my life on this Earth. More and more

00:43:09.949 --> 00:43:12.329
I feel like I'm getting right with Him because

00:43:12.329 --> 00:43:16.429
I feel Him pushing me, no, no, no, back on the

00:43:16.429 --> 00:43:18.329
center line, over here. No, don't even think

00:43:18.329 --> 00:43:22.130
about that. And it just becomes like second nature

00:43:22.130 --> 00:43:27.250
almost. Does that make sense? Absolutely. As

00:43:27.250 --> 00:43:30.789
we get to know His will, as we get to do what

00:43:30.789 --> 00:43:33.289
you're doing, you're discovering things, we do

00:43:33.289 --> 00:43:36.969
get those nudges. We get those god taps. Yes.

00:43:37.530 --> 00:43:39.190
Where it's like, no, no, no, no, over here. No,

00:43:39.210 --> 00:43:42.710
no, no, no, over here. And over time, I think

00:43:42.710 --> 00:43:45.809
the longer we walk with Him, that gets more clear.

00:43:47.349 --> 00:43:51.829
almost where you're not even thinking consciously

00:43:51.829 --> 00:43:54.530
about it, obviously you are cognitively, but

00:43:54.530 --> 00:43:59.130
consciously, and to where you are entering into

00:43:59.130 --> 00:44:01.510
His Steps. There's a great book written in the

00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:06.050
early 1900s called In His Steps by Sheldon was

00:44:06.050 --> 00:44:09.349
the last name. That's where the WWJD movement

00:44:09.349 --> 00:44:11.949
came from in the 80s. Somebody rediscovered that

00:44:11.949 --> 00:44:17.090
book. It's a great story about a pastor teaching

00:44:17.090 --> 00:44:19.230
his church and his church was not doing well,

00:44:19.389 --> 00:44:22.389
the little town wasn't doing well, and he just

00:44:22.389 --> 00:44:25.130
got this idea, well, what would Jesus do? Well,

00:44:25.210 --> 00:44:28.710
he turned into a Sunday night sermon and he did

00:44:28.710 --> 00:44:31.230
something. He said, anybody who wants to hear

00:44:31.230 --> 00:44:34.710
more about this idea of what would Jesus do,

00:44:34.889 --> 00:44:36.750
and you would be willing to sell your life out

00:44:36.750 --> 00:44:39.989
to that, to start doing what you think Jesus

00:44:39.989 --> 00:44:42.750
would do, I want you to come meet me in the...

00:44:42.650 --> 00:44:45.389
Fellowship Hall after church. The place was packed.

00:44:45.769 --> 00:44:49.269
People were like, tell us more about this. Well,

00:44:49.409 --> 00:44:52.730
the book follows these stories. The shop owner,

00:44:53.130 --> 00:44:57.409
the lady who cuts hair, the guy who picks up

00:44:57.409 --> 00:44:59.329
your trash. What's this called again? It's called

00:44:59.329 --> 00:45:04.130
In His Steps by Sheldon is the last name. Classic

00:45:04.130 --> 00:45:07.989
book, great read, easy read, short read. But

00:45:07.989 --> 00:45:12.320
that principle, what would Jesus do? is what

00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:18.619
comes alive. We're going very, very circular

00:45:18.619 --> 00:45:21.179
on this. We're actually staying on the same topic.

00:45:21.340 --> 00:45:22.880
We're just coming at it from different, kind

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.699
of like my sermons. One sermon, 7 ,000 ways to

00:45:25.699 --> 00:45:28.159
say it, but it's all the same. It comes back

00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:32.519
to thinking like Jesus. What would Jesus do here?

00:45:33.469 --> 00:45:36.110
And it's interesting because back in the 80s,

00:45:36.190 --> 00:45:38.710
that got very popular for a season. Bracelets,

00:45:39.150 --> 00:45:41.269
t -shirts, everything, yeah. And I still see

00:45:41.269 --> 00:45:42.909
those bracelets every once in a while. I see

00:45:42.909 --> 00:45:45.409
them in a celebrity or something. I go, oh, football

00:45:45.409 --> 00:45:47.590
players wearing what would Jesus do? Bracelet,

00:45:47.690 --> 00:45:51.090
you know? And I think we need to bring it back.

00:45:51.530 --> 00:45:53.130
Well, it's interesting because people throw that

00:45:53.130 --> 00:45:56.130
in my face, you know, like, oh, what would Jesus

00:45:56.130 --> 00:45:59.739
do? You know, when they disagree with me on something

00:45:59.739 --> 00:46:02.699
on social media. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.

00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:05.059
Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's like, oh, I'll pray

00:46:05.059 --> 00:46:08.000
for you. Yeah. The person who, if you were actually

00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:10.659
in a real conversation, would never say that

00:46:10.659 --> 00:46:16.239
out loud. So how can you check yourself when

00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.599
you think this is what Jesus would do? Obviously,

00:46:20.900 --> 00:46:23.199
that's like such an attack vector for the enemy.

00:46:23.300 --> 00:46:26.179
It is. How do you protect yourself? Well, actually,

00:46:26.579 --> 00:46:29.980
the Bible says that we walk by faith and not

00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:33.400
by sight. And so you're in a relationship with

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:37.320
Him. You're in His steps, to use that. You're

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.659
thinking, trying to think like He does, what

00:46:39.659 --> 00:46:43.280
would Jesus do? And then whatever that comes,

00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.880
you just have to take a step. This is where you

00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.119
step out in faith. This is where you take a step,

00:46:49.260 --> 00:46:50.980
by the way, experiencing God talks about that

00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:54.800
step of faith. You have to step out on it. And

00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:59.159
you use the, I love that, the Indiana Jones moment,

00:47:00.059 --> 00:47:02.960
stepping out, the bridge appears, but only as

00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:05.739
he stepped out and his perspective changed, could

00:47:05.739 --> 00:47:10.179
he actually see it. I've always loved that. But

00:47:10.179 --> 00:47:13.820
it's the same thing. We have to, sooner or later,

00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:15.579
we're going to have to walk by faith and not

00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:19.460
by sight. And you won't always know, but you

00:47:19.460 --> 00:47:22.659
trust. There's the difference. And that's what

00:47:22.659 --> 00:47:25.579
Eddie Murphy said. He's saying, guys, I got this.

00:47:26.340 --> 00:47:29.039
Now, I disagree with his premise about not voting

00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.119
or not getting involved. I mean, we are his hands

00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:34.679
and feet and we interact and we co -operate with

00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:40.159
God. We co -labor with God. So we're involved

00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.650
in the process. But I like what you were saying,

00:47:43.809 --> 00:47:45.769
what you pulled out of that. It was typical Eddie

00:47:45.769 --> 00:47:48.349
Murphy shock value, I think, to get people to

00:47:48.349 --> 00:47:52.070
think. Yeah. It was good. It's amazing what's

00:47:52.070 --> 00:47:55.130
popping up. Someone sent me a clip yesterday

00:47:55.130 --> 00:48:01.050
of David Bowie in a concert, must have been 80s,

00:48:01.369 --> 00:48:03.969
kneeling down on stage and saying the Lord's

00:48:03.969 --> 00:48:08.989
Prayer, King James Version. Wow. I never... knew

00:48:08.989 --> 00:48:16.289
that. I never knew that. You can tell when someone

00:48:16.289 --> 00:48:19.409
has recited the Lord's Prayer many, many times

00:48:19.409 --> 00:48:21.829
and it just flows out. And they say, God bless

00:48:21.829 --> 00:48:25.949
you all. And the place goes crazy. Wow. What

00:48:25.949 --> 00:48:28.250
a cool clip. Yeah. I'll have to send it to you

00:48:28.250 --> 00:48:31.349
if I can find it again amidst all the muck and

00:48:31.349 --> 00:48:33.329
the mire. When I think of David Bowie, I think

00:48:33.329 --> 00:48:36.119
back with him doing that Christmas show. Oh,

00:48:36.179 --> 00:48:38.320
the little drummer boy and everything. Amazing.

00:48:38.699 --> 00:48:41.340
Well, that just goes to show. Another side of

00:48:41.340 --> 00:48:46.059
him. Yes. I do miss him. I know. He predicted

00:48:46.059 --> 00:48:48.599
the craziness of the internet that we have today.

00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.300
around the same time I was getting into it. Really?

00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:54.960
He saw that train coming. He said, we don't know

00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:57.300
what this is. It could be a space alien from

00:48:57.300 --> 00:48:59.340
Mars. This thing is going to be amazing. It's

00:48:59.340 --> 00:49:01.480
going to change everything about life. And I'm

00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:03.539
sad he didn't get to witness everything that

00:49:03.539 --> 00:49:04.800
we're going through, because he would have been

00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:08.679
a fun voice. Crowd control to Major Tom. That

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:11.340
was a little earlier, I think. I'm not sure how

00:49:11.340 --> 00:49:14.460
into the Lord he was at the time. This is the

00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:17.619
only podcast, my brother. that will bump Tucker

00:49:17.619 --> 00:49:20.780
Carlson twice. Because I had those clips again,

00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:22.099
and I'm just like, just going to move them to

00:49:22.099 --> 00:49:25.500
the next show. It's okay. This is how good it

00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:27.559
is. Speaking of Tucker, we don't have to go down

00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.139
the rabbit hole, but you know, I know there's

00:49:30.139 --> 00:49:32.260
a lot of Christians that are pretty enraged at

00:49:32.260 --> 00:49:35.599
him because he's kind of sided with Candice supposedly

00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:39.159
on Israel. You know, a lot of people upset about

00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:42.739
that. So PB and I, Pastor Brian, we've decided

00:49:42.739 --> 00:49:45.969
we're going to do a podcast format sermon. on

00:49:45.969 --> 00:49:49.710
Israel. Why Israel? We need to talk about it

00:49:49.710 --> 00:49:53.610
straight up. Excellent. Out of the Bible. Excellent.

00:49:53.789 --> 00:49:55.369
This isn't going to be opinions, it's going to

00:49:55.369 --> 00:49:59.530
be the Word of God. That is good. We need that.

00:50:00.090 --> 00:50:02.570
We'll go back and forth. Because that's the collateral

00:50:02.570 --> 00:50:05.510
damage of what's going on. Exactly. What's happening

00:50:05.510 --> 00:50:09.750
is there is, and I could tell you all the groups

00:50:09.750 --> 00:50:14.710
or forces that I think are making this happen.

00:50:14.969 --> 00:50:19.090
But ultimately, it is the enemy. It's the oldest

00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:21.869
one in the book, divide and conquer. This is

00:50:21.869 --> 00:50:25.769
about who comes after President Trump. That's

00:50:25.769 --> 00:50:29.030
all that this is about. Who is the next President

00:50:29.030 --> 00:50:31.690
Trump? Because people are like, well, MAGA was

00:50:31.690 --> 00:50:36.650
this and MAGA, no, MAGA is one, is Trump. Without

00:50:36.650 --> 00:50:40.170
Trump, no MAGA. I mean, that's just the fact

00:50:40.170 --> 00:50:44.130
of it. And so this is an early fight. And in

00:50:44.130 --> 00:50:47.750
my mind, hey, why not abuse the Jews for it and

00:50:47.750 --> 00:50:51.090
Israel? They're easy to use. And it is being

00:50:51.090 --> 00:50:55.610
used to drive a wedge primarily online without

00:50:55.610 --> 00:50:59.730
even, I don't think Tucker or Candice or Nick

00:50:59.730 --> 00:51:04.010
Fuentes or anybody really even knows. In fact,

00:51:04.150 --> 00:51:06.650
the more I hear Tucker talk about his faith,

00:51:06.730 --> 00:51:08.269
the more I think, brother, you've got a ways

00:51:08.269 --> 00:51:11.429
to go. And I pray for him in that regard, because

00:51:11.429 --> 00:51:13.969
he's like, I got it all figured out. I'm a Christian.

00:51:15.409 --> 00:51:19.510
OK, no, maybe not. That is all that this is about.

00:51:20.050 --> 00:51:23.489
So to have an actual straight up, this is about

00:51:23.489 --> 00:51:30.010
Israel, yeah, we need that desperately. It's

00:51:30.010 --> 00:51:34.210
become such a whirlpool of doo -doo. Oh my gosh.

00:51:35.130 --> 00:51:40.929
I mean, I love Eric Metaxas. I love them all.

00:51:40.989 --> 00:51:43.030
They're all jumping on board and they're all

00:51:43.030 --> 00:51:46.210
yelling. You are falling for the devil's tricks,

00:51:46.369 --> 00:51:49.389
my brothers. You're falling for his tricks. This

00:51:49.389 --> 00:51:52.960
is the whole point. Stay out of it. Eventually,

00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:56.940
right now, the audiences are going, yeah, this

00:51:56.940 --> 00:52:00.739
is great. America first. Where I'm like, okay,

00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.739
so the amount of money America gives to Israel

00:52:04.739 --> 00:52:08.900
is too weak of snap benefits. What is wrong with

00:52:08.900 --> 00:52:11.699
this picture? Why are you yelling about that

00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:14.599
while this is happening over here? And by the

00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:17.000
way, go to Fredericksburg Food Pranty. I went

00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.179
the other day to give them free support because

00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:24.920
And I saw the look on, her name is Janice. She

00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:27.860
runs the place. And it came at two o 'clock,

00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.900
they open at one o 'clock. She was like staggering.

00:52:30.980 --> 00:52:35.860
She says, ah, the rush is over. It was crazy.

00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:40.300
It was crazy today. My point being, what are

00:52:40.300 --> 00:52:44.219
you arguing about? If you want to defend Israel,

00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:47.190
thank you to you and Pastor Brian. and one of

00:52:47.190 --> 00:52:50.829
the five Brian's. This is what we need. Not jumping

00:52:50.829 --> 00:52:55.010
in and, because you know what this is? It's pride.

00:52:55.949 --> 00:53:00.409
It's now I'm in the fight. And literally, Dave

00:53:00.409 --> 00:53:05.130
Smith, you know, look at the numbers, Candice's

00:53:05.130 --> 00:53:07.110
numbers, Tucker's numbers, everyone's numbers.

00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:11.659
This is not what God cares about, and you're

00:53:11.659 --> 00:53:13.079
going to get this little bump. People are going

00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:16.059
to grow tired of it, and then what? Then you're

00:53:16.059 --> 00:53:18.139
only going to have to get more extreme or whatever

00:53:18.139 --> 00:53:20.260
it is to be stayed away from. And there it is.

00:53:20.260 --> 00:53:22.800
You just nailed it. We've always got to one -up.

00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.000
I remember as a young pastor getting into, we

00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.280
were doing, just back in the 90s, we were using

00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:33.019
lots of props and stuff. And it got crazier and

00:53:33.019 --> 00:53:35.460
crazier to the point where I finally flew a remote

00:53:35.460 --> 00:53:37.940
-controlled helicopter. Through the worship center,

00:53:39.059 --> 00:53:41.739
I hit a plastic golf ball, teed a golf ball up

00:53:41.739 --> 00:53:44.920
with a turf thing. Okay, I got to tell the story

00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.460
real quick. This is great. So I teed up a ball

00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:51.179
because I brought a motorcycle into the worship

00:53:51.179 --> 00:53:53.019
center. Was this a thing? Was this like a trend

00:53:53.019 --> 00:53:54.559
at the time? It was a thing. It was trendy. I

00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:57.219
love it. And so I had this idea, talking about

00:53:57.219 --> 00:53:59.199
teeing up a golf ball and how to hit a golf shot,

00:53:59.219 --> 00:54:02.119
and I compared it to biblical discipleship and

00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:04.380
stuff. Nice. There was a girl sitting on the

00:54:04.380 --> 00:54:08.260
front row. And I made a big target on the back

00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:10.059
wall of the worship center, like a big target.

00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:12.420
People walk in and go, what's this target? Well,

00:54:12.659 --> 00:54:14.139
I was telling everybody, I'm going to hit this

00:54:14.139 --> 00:54:15.539
golf ball and I'm going to hit it right in the

00:54:15.539 --> 00:54:17.420
middle of the target. So everybody's getting

00:54:17.420 --> 00:54:19.400
nervous because they think it's a real golf ball,

00:54:19.460 --> 00:54:23.679
but it's one of those exploding golf balls. That

00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:25.260
explodes when you hit it? Yeah, when you hit

00:54:25.260 --> 00:54:28.219
it, just big power thing. Well, this is one of

00:54:28.219 --> 00:54:30.099
those things about props. You should always test

00:54:30.099 --> 00:54:34.300
them before you use them. I line up like I'm

00:54:34.300 --> 00:54:36.119
going to hit it and I fake swing a couple of

00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:37.659
times. People are ducking and stuff. I think

00:54:37.659 --> 00:54:40.280
it's a real golf ball. This girl sitting on the

00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:42.679
front row, she's military. She's Dias Air Force

00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.159
Base and she's kind of like, whatever, you know,

00:54:45.219 --> 00:54:48.079
she's like laughing about it. I cranked that

00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:53.639
ball. I smashed it. I didn't calculate for the

00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:56.099
plastic shell around the golf ball. Which hit

00:54:56.099 --> 00:54:58.880
her right in the forehead. No, right in the chest.

00:54:59.139 --> 00:55:03.260
I mean like, boom. And you could hear the slap

00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:08.500
when it hit her skin. I mean, it was like...

00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:13.199
It left a mark. Painful passer moments. All that

00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:17.389
to say is, you know... Every week we were one

00:55:17.389 --> 00:55:19.949
-upping ourselves. Another time I had a guy ride

00:55:19.949 --> 00:55:25.250
a Kawasaki Ninja into the worship center with

00:55:25.250 --> 00:55:28.690
Kickstart Your Heart by Motley Crue playing.

00:55:30.449 --> 00:55:32.550
This is when this is starting to get out of hand

00:55:32.550 --> 00:55:34.530
in the 90s, right? It was like everything is

00:55:34.530 --> 00:55:38.000
bigger more. What we didn't account for, again,

00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:40.699
was the carbon monoxide. Yeah. People are like,

00:55:40.699 --> 00:55:43.119
oh, I don't feel so good. Well, I mean, he was

00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.440
a racing motorcycle. He was racing. Ring, ring,

00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:49.260
ring. Oh, it was loud, but it also blew out blue

00:55:49.260 --> 00:55:51.420
smoke. We had to open the doors in the workshop.

00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:53.860
Oh, goodness, brother. Anyway, I could tell stories

00:55:53.860 --> 00:55:55.840
all day long on the stupid stuff we did. These

00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.679
are good, by the way, stories I haven't heard.

00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:00.699
Dumb things we did to try to get people's attention.

00:56:00.699 --> 00:56:03.079
I love that. But all that to say, I see that

00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:05.860
in podcast land right now. Yeah. what's trending,

00:56:06.119 --> 00:56:08.500
what's going to get the most likes, comments,

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.019
ultimately drive people to your sponsors so you

00:56:12.019 --> 00:56:14.260
can keep your job. And by the way, it's always

00:56:14.260 --> 00:56:16.760
the same sponsors who are sponsoring all these

00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.059
podcasts. Just keep an eye on The Wellness Company.

00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:23.380
These are all interesting little advertisers

00:56:23.380 --> 00:56:26.460
that pop up on these things. And now everybody's

00:56:26.460 --> 00:56:29.019
on each other's podcast. So this is incestuous

00:56:29.019 --> 00:56:31.019
and it will end because I've seen this happen

00:56:31.019 --> 00:56:34.769
time and again. Right now, it's fun. Everyone's

00:56:34.769 --> 00:56:42.889
picking sides. I naturally go against the popular

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way. That's just who I am. Thank you, Lord. That's

00:56:46.210 --> 00:56:50.469
who He made me. And usually, five years later,

00:56:50.489 --> 00:56:53.329
people go, you were right. You had the right

00:56:53.329 --> 00:56:56.269
idea. So I'm just seeing this. I'm like, just

00:56:56.269 --> 00:57:00.150
to our listeners, just... Let it go. Because

00:57:00.150 --> 00:57:02.429
it's going to get a little wackier, a little

00:57:02.429 --> 00:57:06.130
crazier. Someone might get hurt. That's possible.

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That's the sad part. And even, again, to pastors

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and faith -based broadcasters who I respect,

00:57:15.429 --> 00:57:17.730
I see them getting wrapped up in it. I'm like,

00:57:18.030 --> 00:57:20.010
don't. I see my friends getting caught up in

00:57:20.010 --> 00:57:22.670
it. And I'm like, man, they're taking the bait.

00:57:22.789 --> 00:57:24.889
Yes. It's like the title of that book by John

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Bevere, The Bait of Satan. They're just taking

00:57:27.070 --> 00:57:29.690
it. They're hooked. Hey, as we kind of land the

00:57:29.690 --> 00:57:31.789
plane, I want to take a moment just to thank

00:57:31.789 --> 00:57:33.610
the people that are actually listening to our

00:57:33.610 --> 00:57:37.389
podcast. Do you have any names? I don't specific.

00:57:37.610 --> 00:57:39.869
I mean, we've got people who've reached out to

00:57:39.869 --> 00:57:41.849
us, said some nice things. I'm seeing about 1

00:57:41.849 --> 00:57:44.969
,500 at this point. It's beautiful. I just want

00:57:44.969 --> 00:57:48.719
to say that, hey, we are appreciative. of you

00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.400
being there, of you giving us time. And sending

00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:54.019
a word back to us. Oh, that's so helpful. We

00:57:54.019 --> 00:57:55.780
really love that. Super helpful. We've gotten

00:57:55.780 --> 00:57:58.099
some beautiful notes from people. We have. And

00:57:58.099 --> 00:58:00.320
just like, wow, just the fact that you listened,

00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:02.599
you got something out of it and sent that back

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is encouraging. That means everything. And I

00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:06.760
just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to

00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:09.760
our listeners. Thank you. And feel free, pass

00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:12.619
it along if you think this is going to be encouraging

00:58:12.619 --> 00:58:15.800
for somebody. Maybe inspirational, even motivational,

00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:18.420
we'll take it. But send it out to your friends

00:58:18.420 --> 00:58:21.699
and get the word out that there's this new podcast,

00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.440
number nine today. Number nine? Are we eight?

00:58:25.900 --> 00:58:27.340
I'm so confused. Oh, number nine. Yes, number

00:58:27.340 --> 00:58:30.320
nine. It's number nine, right? Hey, guess what?

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Next week, number 10. Come on. That's a milestone,

00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:37.059
brother. Brother, we get to do this. I love doing

00:58:37.059 --> 00:58:39.159
it with you. All right. You have an awesome week,

00:58:39.300 --> 00:58:39.980
brother. You too, brother.